Bid: $RACESBUL.344
Subject: Bul344 MGT: ACS/RACES Plans 2/3


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INFO:    ALL COMMUNICATIONS VOLUNTEERS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE
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    Sacramento, CA  95832. Landline BBS, 916-262-1657 (Open
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BULLETIN 344      MGT: ACS/RACES Plans 2/3
Release Date:     September 19, l994

    For obvious reasons, a city and its county cannot develop
communications plans independent of one another, any more than
can a state and its counties.  Such plans are the basis of
emergency communications mutual aid and are jointly developed in
a spirit of cooperation. For that reason they bear signatures of
approval or concurrence by officials of both jurisdictions. The
purpose  is for each jurisdiction's plan to provide cooperation
with the other -- not for one to dominate the other.

    Nowhere does this discussion, or any ACS - RACES plan,
intend to infer that a state can direct a county or that a county
can direct a city in the application of an ACS or RACES program.
Plans need be compiled and issued in a spirit of mutual benefit
and cooperation , working together to provide emergency
communications when needed. An aspect of this is a standardized
plan format which makes cooperation easier. A further aspect is
that concurring signatures notifies other governments that an
OFFICIAL action was taken to approve the plan.

    Emergency communications plans that fail to reflect the
necessary inter-relationships described above are almost
certainly doomed to failure. Unfortunately, history dictates that
there have been some otherwise responsible government officials
who believed that all of their communication was as close as
their telephone, hence they failed to develop an emergency
communications reserve and then suffered the debilitating results
personally.
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Note: A sample model plan is available on request with a SASE
9x11 mailer with 75 cents postage to non-government or out of
state requests. For California jurisdicitions the Auxiliary
Communications Service personnel in Sacramento offer to provide a
custom plan for any city or county emergency communications
reserve coordinator.
EOM.